WP Presents the
World Premiere of

VICTORIA MARTIN:
MATH TEAM QUEEN

By Kathryn Walat
Directed by Loretta Greco

 

January 12-February 4, 2007

When uber-popular Vickie Martin joins the all-male math team, chaos theory becomes the rule at Longwood High School. Can this goddess of Pi possibly make the mathletes victorious? Totally.

Featuring Jessi Campbell as Vickie Martin, and Zachary Booth, Adam Farabee, Tobias Segal, and Matthew Stadelmann as the math geeks. With scenery by Robert Brill, costumes by Valerie Marcus Ramshur, lighting by Sarah Sidman, and sound by Daniel Baker.

Performances run January 12-February 4 at the Julia Miles Theater (424 West 55th Street, just west of 9th Avenue). For tickets, visit the box office or www.Telecharge.com, or call 212.239.6200. Tickets $40; rush tickets $10 (for students under 25 with valid student ID, cash only, on day of performance at the box office only).

WHO'S WHO

Playwright Kathryn Walat’s plays include Connecticut, Greenspace, Know Dog, and Johnny Hong Kong. Her work has been produced at Salvage Vanguard (Austin), Perishable Theatre (Providence), The Hangar Theatre (Ithaca), and developed at Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club, Boston Theatre Works, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, The Lark, and New Georges, where she is an affiliated playwright. She has been commissioned for Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Anthology Project/Humana 2007, and her newest play Bleeding Kansas will premiere this summer at The Hangar Theatre. Ms. Walat is a member of the Women’s Project’s Playwrights Lab, and Victoria Martin: Math Team Queen first appeared in the Women’s Project's 2005 Women’s Work new play reading festival. She received her BA from Brown University and MFA from Yale Drama School. She lives in New York.

Director Loretta Greco's New York premieres include: The Story (Public Theater  Audelco nom/Kesselring Prize), Meshugah (Naked Angels), Lackawanna Blues (Public Theater), Two Sisters and a Piano (Public Theater/Kesselring Prize), Mercy (Vineyard), A Park In Our House (New York Theater Workshop). For Women's Project: Rinne Groff’s Inky, Toni Press Coffman’s Touch, Karen Hartman’s Gum, and Amparo Garcia’s Under a Western Sky (with INTAR). Ms. Greco directed the National tour of Emily Mann’s Having Our Say in addition to the international premiere at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her regional work includes  Courtney Baron’s Morbidity/Mortality(Magic Theater), Romeo and Juliet and Stop Kiss (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Dirty Blond (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park), Gross Indecency (Playmakers Rep) in addition to productions at ACT, Intiman, Williamstown, LaJolla Playhouse, McCarter, Long Wharf, South Coast Rep, St Louis Rep, Coconut Grove Playhouse, and Cleveland PlayHouse. Developmental work at  Sundance, ONeill, New Harmony, and Mark Taper Forum. She is the author of Passage: Stories of the Cuban Balseros which received its premiere at AREA Stage in Miami and ran  for over six months. Upcoming work includes David Harrower’s Blackbird (ACT) and a revival of Claire Chafee’s Why We Have A Body (Magic Theater). Ms. Greco is the recipient of two Drama League fellowships, the Princess Grace Award, and holds an MFA from Catholic University.